I was so excited to review this new Interweave publication. According to Interweave, Cut-up Couture: Edgy Upcycled Garments to Sew by Koko Yamase is “a cutting-edge design book that teaches how to use the copious fabric in men’s clothing to make 34 innovative garments and accessories. The simple sewing techniques showcase how to turn men’s…
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Reducing Our Impact
Yesterday I watched OWN’s Super Soul Sunday which showed a documentary, “No Impact Man,” about New York City residents Colin Beavan, his wife, and daughter who spent a year working to decrease their impact on the environment. This included no television, no automated transportation, and no toilet paper. They switched from eating out to buying…
Read MoreKrylon Dual Paint – craft organizer/work shoes shelf
The kind folks at Krylon sent me several cans of their new paint, Dual, which is paint and primer. No need to prime anymore. Yeah! Since I’m trying to break out of my traditional mauves and teals, I thought true blue and mandarin would make a good pair for my two projects. In my continuing…
Read MoreOrganizing The Craft Stuff
Back in December I started organizing my craft/woman cave. I shared back then what I found when going through all of the sewing boxes in the basement. Now I thought I’d show you a bit of how I organized the stuff. I did some research and decided on the Gorilla Racks. They aren’t real pretty,…
Read MoreCraft Fair Finds
Yesterday, Dave and I went to one of my favorite craft fairs here in our town of Newburgh. It’s put on by the local women’s group and held at the local high school. I really like this fair because even though it is smaller than the Christmas fair held in the same school, to me…
Read MoreSewing and Recycling
I’ve been doing a little sewing here at Happy Acres the past couple of weeks. I recycled some of my old material from my quilting days for these projects. We’ve been in dire need of some new potholders since the ones we bought on our Honeymoon in Hawaii are pretty sad looking. I had this…
Read MoreStrathmore Visual Journaling
We just completed Workshop One of Strathmore’s Online Visual Journaling Series. This month’s topic has been Recycled Journal pages. We started creating with one page made from copies of previous journal pages we’ve created. Here is my original journal page I created a while back that was the basis of this workshop’s page. Each week…
Read MoreMaking Paper Cloth
I’ve been wanting to do this since I purchased Kelli Perkins’ Stitch Alchemy many months ago. Since my craft room/woman cave is almost organized, I thought it was time to play a bit. What is paper cloth? It’s making a material using a base of material – could be muslin, canvas or even some of…
Read MoreMy First Complete Art Journal
Those of you who know me, know that I’ve kept a journal since sixth grade and have taught numerous journal writing courses over the past eleven years online, in Chicago, Louisville, California and locally. Words in a blank journal or a private file on the computer have always come easy. But I’ve had this nagging…
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